Catherine Newman
Teoksen We All Want Impossible Things tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Catherine Newman is the author of the memoir Waiting for Birday and the blog Ben and Birdy. Newman is also the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine. One Mixed-Up Night, her first middle-grade novel, is forthcoming. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her näytä lisää family.catherinenewmanwriter.com näytä vähemmän
Tekijän teokset
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family (2005) 139 kappaletta
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up (2020) 82 kappaletta
What Can I Say?: A Kid's Guide to Super-Useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself; Speak Up,… (2022) 19 kappaletta
Und wir tanzen, und wir fallen 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Avustaja — 690 kappaletta
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Avustaja — 93 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Newman, Catherine
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Palkinnot
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 8
- Also by
- 8
- Jäseniä
- 616
- Suosituimmuussija
- #40,815
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.7
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 27
- ISBN:t
- 41
- Kielet
- 2
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 1
Quotes
The funny thing is this: people think that dorky geeks who read all the time are the kinds of kids who don't get into trouble. But they're wrong. We do. (first sentences)
But the thing is? I never feel strange with Walter. I mean, never when we're hanging out, just the two of us, obviously. But also never if he's even just in the room with me. He's like my own personal normalizer, and if he's in my class at school or at a party with me, or in a group of people, I can relax and just feel all right in the world.
"You're Frankie's knight in shining armor," my dad once said to Walter....
"I know," [Walter had] said seriously. "She's mine too." (72)
Sometimes I think that's kind of what stuff is like. You want it until you have it, and then it's like the light inside it goes out. (82)
That's what I was thinking about now....How rare it was to feel actually satisfied by things, however nice they were. (104)
"And all those things are gone, and where they were there are just these giant holes instead, and all you can do is kind of...fall into them and break your leg every five minutes." (Walter, 158)… (lisätietoja)